Alert archive / Illinois / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2008
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Illinois, August 2008
6 severe thunderstorm watches in August 2008. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of severe thunderstorm watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 2008. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 6
- Busiest day
- August 5, 20083 severe thunderstorm watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 5:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Cass, Christian, Clark, Clay, Clinton and 32 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 4, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Boone, Bureau, Carroll, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 4, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Cook, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kane and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 5, 2:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bureau, Ford, Fulton, Grundy, Hancock, Henderson and 18 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 5, 2:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bond, Calhoun, Cass, Christian, Clay, Clinton and 30 more | 9 hr |
| Aug 28, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Adams, Bond, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Christian and 16 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bond County3
- Cass County3
- Christian County3
- Clinton County3
- Greene County3
- Jersey County3
- Macoupin County3
- Madison County3
- Montgomery County3
- Morgan County3
- Sangamon County3
- Scott County3
- Washington County3
- Grundy County3
- Will County3
- Clay County2
- Crawford County2
- Cumberland County2
- Edwards County2
- Effingham County2
- Fayette County2
- Franklin County2
- Hamilton County2
- Jasper County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lawrence County2
- Marion County2
- Menard County2
- Perry County2
- Richland County2
- Shelby County2
- Wabash County2
- Wayne County2
- White County2
- Bureau County2
- Cook County2
- DuPage County2
- Henry County2
- Kane County2
- Kendall County2
45 more counties
- Lake County2
- LaSalle County2
- Mercer County2
- Putnam County2
- Rock Island County2
- Ford County2
- Iroquois County2
- Kankakee County2
- Livingston County2
- Calhoun County2
- Monroe County2
- Pike County2
- Randolph County2
- Saint Clair County2
- Clark County1
- Coles County1
- Douglas County1
- Edgar County1
- Macon County1
- Moultrie County1
- Boone County1
- Carroll County1
- DeKalb County1
- Jo Daviess County1
- Lee County1
- McHenry County1
- Ogle County1
- Stephenson County1
- Whiteside County1
- Winnebago County1
- Fulton County1
- Hancock County1
- Henderson County1
- Knox County1
- McDonough County1
- McLean County1
- Marshall County1
- Peoria County1
- Stark County1
- Tazewell County1
- Warren County1
- Woodford County1
- Adams County1
- Brown County1
- Schuyler County1
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.